Chapter 53 Three Me

"It's to help you get to know yourself."

"As the ancients said, using copper as a mirror, one can adjust one's attire. Using people as a mirror, one can understand gains and losses. Using history as a mirror, one can understand rise and fall. Gui Ruoxue, do you know what you lack most now?" Ning Mingmei persuaded, "What you lack is the exploration of your true desires."

He tore off the white cloth covering Gui Ruoxue's eyes. Gui Ruoxue narrowed her eyes, still a little uncomfortable with the strong light coming in from the outside.

Gui Ruoxue finally knew where she was now. He was tied up by Ning Mingmei in the corner of a room, with a large mirror covered with cloth blocking his way.

Then, he saw Ning Mingmei open the mirror.

Gui Ruoxue: ...

…

"Ning! Ming! Mei!"

The elegant and noble young man Gui Ruoxue finally knew what it felt like to be angry to the point of going crazy. He knew he was tied up, but he didn't know he was tied like this.

Why is there such a strange way of tying? !

And it is reflected in the mirror, which is extremely immoral.

Ning Mingmei: "You're welcome. I'm leaving now. Spend a day getting to know yourself first. Remember to understand my intentions."

Depend on!

Where on earth did this person come from? Why doesn't every word you say sound like human language?

"Very good, if you wanted to insult me, you succeeded." Gui Ruoxue was so angry that she gasped, "Tell me, how are you going to torture me to extract a confession next?"

Then he saw Ning Mingmei looking at him and sighed regretfully.

"How could we, a well-known and upright family, do such a thing? Well, the road of education is full of thorns. Before I leave, I will give you another proverb." Ning Mingmei said, "Smile at the world, and the world will smile back at you. Soon, you will experience this here."

Gui Ruoxue: ...

The world you are talking about does not refer to my own expression in the mirror.

It didn't seem like he was convinced, but he was almost fainted from anger and couldn't utter a word.

Ning Mingmei: "Go and think about it, Gui Ruoxue. One day, you will find your true self in the mirror."

Ning Mingmei disappeared, leaving Gui Ruoxue in the room with her head almost bleeding.

Before leaving, this person pushed the mirror towards Gui Ruoxue. In other words, Gui Ruoxue was completely confined in the triangle area of ​​"wall-mirror-wall".

Besides looking at the wall, the only thing left is to look at the mirror.

Gui Ruoxue was upset and decided to close her eyes and not look. The voices of the disciples were heard outside again.

"Master Ning Feng asked us to bring in some candles and lights."

"Yes, it is necessary to keep the lights on at night!"

Gui Ruoxue: ...?

"I almost forgot."

The mirror was pulled open, and Ning Mingmei, wearing green clothes, appeared in front of Gui Ruoxue. Gui Ruoxue opened her mouth to curse, but was silenced by the other party.

Then, she didn't know where he touched, and Gui Ruoxue couldn't close her eyes anymore. She could only keep looking at herself in the mirror.

Ning Mingmei: "Don't be in a hurry to speak. Take some time to think first, and you will gain more."

After saying that, he blocked the mirror again and left.

Gui Ruoxue: ...

"Master is so gentle to that prisoner..." The voices of disciples could be heard outside.

"We in the Qingji Sect are just like this."

Qingji Sect? Bright and clear sky? Are all of you in the Qingji Sect like this?

Gui Ruoxue couldn't close her eyes, couldn't turn her neck, and the lights outside were still on.

For the next 24 hours, the only thing he could move was his facial expressions, and he could only stare at himself.

…

Ning Mingmei returned to his room, closed the door, and then hunched his body down.

He pushed up his glasses and said, "I followed your instructions. I didn't do anything that would ruin my image."

Torture, taunting, physical contact…that sort of thing.

Of course, he is communicating with the system.

system:……

Ning Mingmei: "What do you think?"

System: "Although I don't know how to define it, your behavior is abnormal."

Ning Mingmei: "Why do you think so? I followed the rules, just like the gentle spring breeze and gentle rain. Sooner or later, Gui Ruoxue will be moved by my good intentions."

system:……

It takes time for the disciples to recover, time for Gui Ruoxue to understand herself and be inspired by her academic passion, and Lian Chengyue will not die anyway. Ning Ming felt at ease and started doing his own thing.

For example, go to the dilapidated temple and take a look.

The dilapidated temple today is far less lively than it was yesterday. When the townspeople saw that the gooseneck flask was missing, they dispersed in despair. Now, except for him, there are only a few scattered people in and outside the temple.

An old woman said: "The statue performed a miracle, removed the dust, and now it has ascended to where it should go."

Ning Mingmei looked at the old man who was picking up rubbish outside the dilapidated temple. She is neither sad nor happy, she just does her own thing, as if she has her own wisdom in life.

Ning Mingmei thought for a moment and said, "You were not here when the statue appeared yesterday. Why?"

The old woman said, "Sudden events in the world often seem to be blessings at first, but later they seem to be obstacles. If you receive blessings, you will be asked to repay them sooner or later. If you don't, you will be hated. When the time comes, what you have to pay will be a hundred times more than what you get."

Ning Mingmei said, "Indeed. These things have happened before, and they have happened again and again."

The old woman shook her head and sighed, saying only: "But if the gods really have good intentions, isn't it pitiful to be speculated like this?"

She carried her bag and staggered down the hill. An old man smoking a water pipe nearby saw Ning Mingmei was interested and said flatteringly, "It is said that the old woman was a concubine of some wealthy family when she was young. Later, she was abandoned by her husband's family and ended up living here."

Ning Mingmei: "Where is her husband from?"

The old men looked at each other. One of them said, "It seems his surname is Quan, and he is a minor official in Yedi."

Ye land.

Isn't this the land of six million?

Ning Mingmei walked around the statue by himself.

He found a signature engraved on the statue: "In the sixth year of Tianlang, this statue was made for Miss Wen."

The sixth year of Tianlang, a very distant era. Not in the last few hundred years.

Apart from this, there is no information on the statue except for a pool of blood on the back.

It was as if someone, at the end of his life, came here by chance, looked at this statue that was once worshipped as a god, with mixed thoughts in his mind, and touched it in a daze.

Left behind.

After finishing the exploration, Ning Mingmei returned to Gao's house and happened to run into Gao's adopted daughter fetching water. Her thin arms were trembling and she was trying very hard.

He stood under the eaves, watching her fetch water and work to prepare dinner. It wasn't until everything was ready that he came out and said, "What are you doing?"

The girl was startled. She bowed her head and said, "Thank you, Immortal Lord, for killing the demons and saving me and A Yue. I can't do anything, I can only help you do some work."

Looks quite honest.

Ning Mingmei asked her, "You have been taking care of that boy these past few days. Do you have a good relationship with him?"

The girl said, "Not really. He has done me a favor, and I want to repay him."

Ning Mingmei asked: "Do you believe in God and the cycle of cause and effect?"

In the past, girls would say “both”. She was afraid of God's judgment and revenge, and could not sleep at night because of killing Master Gao.

But things were different from then on.

The girl knew that Ning Mingmei had saved the evil spirit, did not pursue the matter of the young master of the Gao family, and captured Gui Ruoxue who was pretending to be Granny Lao alive.

This is a favor that far exceeds the favor that A Yue has shown. But what Ning Mingmei didn't know was that all these things combined were not as great as the shock and huge gratitude from the soul that he brought to the girl when he tested the boundaries of the statue in the ruined temple that day.

She didn't know what use this would be for an orphan girl who still had no place to live and didn't know where to go next. But she vaguely felt that the shock she felt at that moment was enough to illuminate the rest of her life.

At this moment, she shook her head and said, "No...I just want to repay the favor."

Ning Mingmei said: "Oh...are you going to live with him from now on?"

The girl said, "Now that he has recovered from his illness, my kindness has been repaid."

Where to go after that? She didn't know where A Yue was going, and in fact, she didn't know where she was going either. But in a fate not controlled by God, she always has to decide her own life.

After that, she always had to find her own things to do.

Ning Mingmei nodded and turned to go into the house. The girl stood behind him and whispered, "Thank you, Immortal Lord."

--Thank you. For many things. I’m just afraid that I won’t be able to repay you.

Ning Mingmei closed the door and sat in his seat to think for a while. The system asked him, "Are you thinking about detoxifying Lian Chengyue? Or is it about your own body?"

Ning Mingmei said: "He knows his limits, knows when to advance and when to retreat, is honest and capable, admires and appreciates me very much, is careful, is an orphan, has no background, can only rely on working for me to eat, is easy to control, as an orphan, only needs a bite of food to support him, and doesn't know that he should be paid for his work."

System: "The first few sentences sound like good words to describe a person, but the last few sentences don't sound like words a human can say. Are you describing Lian Chengyue? Have you finally seen his value as a disciple?"

Ning Mingmei: "He is kind-hearted and his values ​​are not yet formed. He is more suitable to be a disciple."

System: “Kindness?”

This is something that even the system cannot say.

Ning Mingmei: "She is a suitable candidate for a female disciple. She can be used to clean up my teaching plans and sort out my emails."

--Depend on! !

After coming out, she successfully caused the male protagonist to suffer severe physical and mental damage. He did not do his job properly and now wants to take another disciple back with him!

The system was angry, but suddenly it became overjoyed.

——Since Ning Mingmei is willing to accept that little girl, wouldn’t it be natural for him to accept Lian Chengyue as well?

Should we take them both back when this trip is over? After all, only children make choices, while adults want everything.

The system was still happy, but did not notice that Ning Mingmei's glasses flashed.

Will Ning Mingmei really do as it wishes and take Lian Chengyue away with him?

…

After a few days of work, my body is overheated and needs to rest. Ning Mingmei therefore went to bed early.

There is still one day left before the group meeting.

The next morning, Ning Mingmei was awakened by the noise in the yard again.

It was the voices of the two poisoned disciples that woke him up.

"Master Ning Feng, there is still one day before they are completely detoxified." Luo Xiao said with a smile.

In the room, the two poisoned disciples were still making a lot of noise.

"I love you, my home!"

"Junior Sister Qiao! When I get back, I will propose to you!"

"Master Bai Feng, I want to be Master Bai Feng's dog."

"Praise the sun!"

Ning Mingmei: ...

"Give them some dumb xue," he ordered.

It was finally quiet all around. Ning Mingmei finally went to see Gui Ruoxue refreshed.

He pushed the mirror away and Gui Ruoxue looked at him with hatred.

It looks like the defense has been broken.

Ning Mingmei: "Gui Ruoxue, you don't have to feel guilty for hurting me because you glared at me. As everyone knows, I practice the ruthless way. Accepting your anger is also a way for me to practice my ruthless way."

Gui Ruoxue: ...

It looks like he really wants to roll his eyes.

Ning Mingmei untied the mute collar for him. Unexpectedly, when her body was sealed, Gui Ruoxue looked like she was about to swear. When he actually spoke, he still retained Ming Huagu's good upbringing.

"Master Ning Feng wants me to speak, he must be dying to do that." Gui Ruoxue said, "If not, why humiliate me like this?"

Ning Mingmei: "Why do you say that, Gui Ruoxue? I am trying to help you. From the first time I saw you, I knew that you had never gotten what you really wanted."

Gui Ruoxue seemed to be having trouble breathing again. He said coldly, "Oh? Tell me, what do I really want?"

It seems that Gui Ruoxue's psychological endurance is indeed good, and there is still a lot to be explored.

"Only you can answer this question." Ning Mingmei said calmly, "Because you don't know yourself well enough."

Gui Ruoxue glanced with a strange expression at the mirror he had been forced to stare at for the whole day.

Ning Mingmei: "After a day, have you gained any insights? For example, how many 'I's' did you see in the mirror?"

Gui Ruoxue: "You?"

Ning Mingmei: "It's not 'I', it's you. Tell me again, how many 'I's' did you see?"

Gui Ruoxue was stunned: "Is it 'I' or 'you'?"

Ning Mingmei: "This 'I' can be you, or it can be me. Each of us is an 'I', and there are multiple me's. Question 1: How many do I have?"

The long-haired beauty, who was always gentle but concealed viciousness, finally revealed a confused expression at this moment.

He: “A lot?”

I was actually confused and started answering questions.

Ning Mingmei: "Wrong, three. Do you want to know why there are three of me?"

Id, ego, superego.

Gui Ruoxue began to nod...then, he began to shake his head frantically.

What a joke.

He didn't nod just now.

"To know why there are three of me, we have to start with you." Ning Mingmei said, "The question is, who are you?"

Gui Ruoxue: "Gui Ruoxue."

"Gui Ruoxue is just a name, a code name. Everyone can be called Gui Ruoxue, and everyone can be called Ning Mingmei. Excluding this name, what determines that you are 'you'? The answer is still 'me'." Ning Mingmei said, "Gui Ruoxue, you don't understand this truth, and that is why you are always in pain. To be virtuous and to repay grievances with virtue is the standard of the Qingji Sect. Therefore, I want to enlighten you and give you complete freedom."

Complete, independent, and pursuing work for him... no, academic pursuit.

Gui Ruoxue is a beauty.

She is also a sinister beauty.

Therefore, there is no shortage of men and women who want to save him. They often say, "You look cold and cruel, but you are actually a lonely child."

Gui Ruoxue finally felt that the topic had returned to the track he was familiar with. He smiled sinisterly: "Oh? What is complete freedom?"

Ning Mingmei changed the subject again: "Gui Ruoxue, what do you want at this moment?"

Gui Ruoxue sneered: "Ning Mingmei, I want you to let me out."

"Escape? No, that's not what you really want." Ning Mingmei said, "Do you know the five levels of human needs?"

Gui Ruoxue: "I don't know... Why should I answer your question?"

There was indeed some anger on the long-haired beauty's face. Obviously, it was because he realized that he was following Ning Mingmei's rhythm.

"Physiology, safety, social needs, respect and self-realization." Ning Mingmei pushed his glasses and said, "Explain it briefly."

"Physiological needs mean you want to sleep in a better room."

Guest room? Isn't this a prison cell?

"Safety needs mean you want to leave me. Congratulations, you have grown a bit and reached the second level of needs."

"Social needs mean you want to make friends with me."

Gui Ruoxue: "...Who wants to be friends with you?!"

Ning Mingmei: "Respect means being respected by me and your brother. Your brother Gui Ruoxu has never respected your research, right? They are both Minghua Valley's technologies, but he regards the nourishing recipe as the right way, but the poisoning recipe as the evil way. Obviously, these are two sides of the same coin. The same thing, when used from the positive side, is a nourishing recipe, and when used from the other side, it is a poisoning recipe. If you close your ears and ears, can you pretend that these two sides of the same coin do not exist? Minghua Valley claims to be the best medicine repairing valley in the world, don't you even want to admit this fact?"

"Is it the medicine cultivators who made Minghua Valley successful, or is it that Minghua Valley restricted the development direction of medicine cultivators for fame, fortune and the so-called reputation of the righteous path?"

"For this reason, you left and established the Jade Altar. But the people in the Jade Altar only know how to fight for fame and fortune. They don't study magic, but because they are not successful in the right way, they follow you to take the side path. They never understand why you established the Jade Altar."

This simple sentence shocked Gui Ruoxue's heart.

He was speechless, suppressing the soreness in his throat: "...Heh."

"The fifth level is self-realization, which is true 'freedom'. It is the real thing that is higher than the others, what you want to do. At this level, it doesn't matter what others think of you. Because you have already achieved spiritual satisfaction. Even if it is hard, tiring, and in the end you become a tool to create value for another person. But you still feel completely satisfied while staying in the snow cave - because the sublimation of your soul is incomparable. The so-called fame, wealth and status are just burdens recognized by the world."

"For you, freedom means the pursuit of scholarship."

After hearing these words, Gui Ruoxue's eyes sparkled, and there was actually some emotion in her own imagination.

Ning Mingmei didn't say anything. He just stood there, waiting for Gui Ruoxue's expression to change. He looked at me and felt touched at one moment, cold at another, thoughtful at another, as if he understood me so well, and then put up a barrier.

Finally, Gui Ruoxue spoke.

There was a kind of bravado and arrogance in his words that he was unwilling to admit.

"After saying so much, you just want to ask me for medicine. Isn't that right?" Gui Ruoxue said coldly, "This is your purpose..."

Ning Mingmei interrupted him again.

"Gui Ruoxue, you want to kill me at this moment. But in fact, it's not me you want to kill, but you. That is, your 'I'." Ning Mingmei, "The reason is..."

He glanced out the window: "It's time."

Then he pointed to Gui Ruoxue, closed the mirror, and left.

Gui Ruoxue, who was trying to be arrogant, couldn't catch her breath and said:...

This is Ning Mingmei! Why are you still stuck?

But the next day, Ning Mingmei would definitely come to see him again.

Gui Ruoxue was so angry that her teeth were itching.

When the time comes, he will definitely ask him.

Ning Mingmei left Gui Ruoxue behind to let him know himself. I curled up in bed alone and practiced qigong to relieve my stress.

It's about to happen again.

It was rare for the system to show sympathy to Ning Mingmei. Just very quickly. It heard Ning Mingmei say:

"Lian Chengyue is such a loser, can't he just get better on his own and suck my blood?"

system:……

"It's so quiet outside." He Zheng said.

The mansion is indeed very quiet today. Ning Mingmei's captives were silenced, and the two poisoned disciples were silenced. The people from Jixian Peak went out to buy things. Even the four disciples from Piaomiao Peak who usually patrolled the yard were nowhere to be seen.

By the way, where did the disciples from Piaomiao Peak go?

He Zheng walked around the mansion and finally caught Seventeen who was going out to relieve himself.

There were dark circles under Seventeen's eyes and his expression was dull. No one knew what was going on.

He Zheng asked him. Seventeen said: "Tomorrow morning... Master will look for us..."

Tomorrow morning?

Oh yes, it has been seven days since the “closing” incident in the village.

As for what to do after "closing the door", Seventeen Three kept silent. He Zheng rolled his eyes and said, "My senior sister Jiang Yu actually admires your master very much. She dreams of entering Piao Miao Peak."

Seventeen: ...

"Ah... Really? Why?"

He Zheng: "She saw that Master Ning had a noble and cold temperament."

Seventeen: "If it's for this purpose... forget it."

After a pause, he continued, "Master, it's actually completely different from what you imagine."

He Zheng narrowed his eyes.

Seventeen floated away like a ghost. He Zheng was left to think.

no the same?

Do you mean a bad subversive impression?

He Zheng suddenly came up with an idea.

Otherwise, take Jiang Yu with you to spy tomorrow?

I guess after seeing the horrific scene tomorrow, Jiang Yu will never want to betray Yin Xisheng again.

This is his self-esteem as a person from Yuting Peak.

…

Many people did not sleep well that night.

This also includes Gui Ruoxue.

Only Gui Ruoxue's room was brightly lit. He stared at himself in the mirror, sometimes smiling, sometimes angry.

Fortunately I couldn’t move, otherwise I would have tossed and turned.

Better to be clear and ignorant.

What exactly is Ning Mingmei's intention?

"I just want your medicine." A voice told him, "Gui Ruoxue, this is how people are, don't be fooled."

"But what he said is very interesting." said another voice.

"He always comes every morning, says a few words and leaves. Doesn't he want to talk to me more? Shouldn't there be more confrontational dialogues between opponents?" said another voice.

"Wait a little longer. Ning Mingmei said so much yesterday. It seems that he really can't hold it in any longer. Today, he will definitely come over and say more."

Gui Ruoxue pondered over this matter like this, struggling between her conscience and her desires until dawn.

The brighter the sky, the calmer his heart became.

Because these days, Ning Mingmei always came to see him on time at 9 o'clock.

The moment to see Ning Mingmei instead of looking at myself in the mirror every day is finally approaching.

Gui Ruoxue was very sure that dealing with him was Ning Mingmei's most important, highest priority, and most unshakable thing now.

So, he will definitely come and will definitely not abandon me.

When the time comes, he will have to put on some airs to vent his recent anger.

It was only a few moments before the 9:00 p.m. Gui Ruoxue stared at herself in the mirror, ready to debate with Ning Mingmei.

But then, Gui Ruoxue encountered something unexpected.